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August 06, 2018

Next to Its Solar Twins, the Sun Stands Out (Science News)

A composite image of the Sun where each slice gives a view of the Sun in a different wavelength of light

July 04, 2018

The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy

An impression of the encounter between the Milky Way galaxy and the smaller Sausage galaxy about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago

June 30, 2018

Center for Computational Astrophysics Fall Colloquia Schedule

Digital illustration of galaxy formation

June 14, 2018

A New and Improved Way To Find Baby Planets, Carnegie Institution for Science

An artist’s impression of protoplanets forming around a young star

May 10, 2018

The Eternal Sky, Part 3: Tools for Bang or Bounce

Image of canyon crack

April 26, 2018

You Are Here: Scientists Unveil Precise Map Of More Than A Billion Stars, NPR

Image of networks of stars in the night sky, showing parallax and proper motion on the sky

April 26, 2018

The Milky Way, Revealed as Never Before, Scientific American

A graphical representation of Gaia’s all-sky data on the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and color of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016

April 25, 2018

Assembly of Massive Galaxy Cluster Witnessed for the First Time By Thomas Sumner

Artistic illustration of newly discovered group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe